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...The score — written by Ahn Sook-Sun with contributions from Parasite film score composer and K-pop star Jung Jae-Il, and played live by a 10-strong orchestra — sounds like something out of sci-fi, too, all...
...Lee Hyun-sook, who founded Kukje Gallery in 1982 and who has followed the local market for decades, says the young generation is playing a pivotal role in expanding the Korean art scene....
...Philip Habib — the famous US envoy after whom the embassy has been renamed — intervened when dissident politician Kim Dae-jung was kidnapped in Tokyo in 1973 by South Korea’s authoritarian ruler Park Chung-hee...
...“I am so worried that I hardly go outside,” said Kang Hye-sook, a 71-year-old resident of Daegu. “Few people are seen on the streets....
...“Whatever the amount of tax, they have more than enough to spend for the rest of their lives,” said JS Ahn, a milkman in Kwangju on the outskirts of Seoul....
...At last season’s shows, many designers reacted to Korea’s year of #MeToo with politicians, judges and governor Ahn Hee-jung all being accused of predatory behaviour and more....
...This week a trial began into allegations that Ahn Hee-jung, a former provincial governor who was seen as a potential presidential candidate, raped a former secretary....
...The slaughterer is Sook-hee (Kim Ok-bin), an angel-faced assassin hell-bent on avenging her father’s murder....
...The melodrama has a hall-of-mirrors glint — deployed as a sleeper agent, Sook-hee goes undercover as an actress, keeping her real job from her sweet-tempered new boyfriend (Sung Joon)....
...Ahn Hee-jung, governor of South Chungcheong province and Mr Moon’s main rival for the presidency, also vowed to put an end to presidential pardons, saying: “Unprincipled immunity and reinstatement go against...
...Samsung can actually advance into new areas, leveraging its strength in the existing chip business, as we embrace a new era where memory capacity will be really important,” said Marcello Ahn, a fund manager...
...Ms Park, the daughter of former South Korean President Park Chung Hee, has denied any wrongdoing, saying that “the truth will be definitely unearthed”....
...He faces a primary against Ahn Hee-jung, the governor of South Chungcheong province, early next month....
...Opinion polls show him some 20 percentage points or more ahead of his primary challenger Ahn Hee-jung, the governor of South Chungcheong province in the country’s west....
...Mr Lee has been leading the Samsung Group, which has about 60 business units, since his father and chairman Lee Kun-hee was hospitalised with a heart attack in 2014....
...Legislators in Seoul voted 234 to 56 to topple Ms Park, whose power transfers to Hwang Kyo-ahn, the prime minister, while the matter goes to the constitutional court for final ruling....
...Nov 2/3 Ms Park reshuffles her cabinet as the scandal widens and Ahn Jong-beom and Jeong Ho-seong, two of her former aides, are detained for questioning....
...Kim Eun-sook, a publisher, shuttles manuscripts and proofs to the censors’ office; the play she has had translated is returned butchered, whole pages obliterated using an ink roller....
...Ahn Byung-woo, head of the Seoul-based Asia Peace and History Education Network, said a move by the government to reclaim control of the history syllabus would be a dangerous “backtracking to the old days...
...But in other ways the haenyeo life has changed with the times, I hear from Park Bong-sook, whom I meet near a luxury resort on Jeju’s east coast....
...Ahn Hee-jung is an avid user of overseas online shopping sites....
...Kwon Young-sook, a professor at Seoul National University, said the current government’s approach to protest was broadly in line with that of previous administrations....
...Ahn Byung-jin, a professor at Kyung-hee Cyber University, said that the criticism of Ahn Dae-hee was particularly severe because of public anger about “revolving doors” between the public and private sectors...
...“I think it will be an improvement,” says Yoo Soo-hee, 55, as a small white dog loiters in search of scraps. “But we are frustrated with the politicians.”...
...But Lee Kun-hee was given a three-year suspended prison sentence for evading taxes of Won45.6bn in 2008 and resigned from Samsung....
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